Calcutta India-1962: Men Cutting Wood In Hot Sun On Crowded Boat Surrounded By

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationCalcutta, India
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 in Calcutta India

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Men Cutting Wood In Hot Sun On Crowded Boat Surrounded By — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures men laboring on a crowded boat in Calcutta, India. Shirtless men in blue trousers and white hats work under the hot sun, using hand tools to cut wood on a makeshift platform. The scene is bustling with activity, showing passengers and goods aboard a large river vessel, with smaller boats navigating the water nearby. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a handheld perspective, offering a raw glimpse into daily life and labor in mid-century India.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123724846

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1399 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: feb
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: india,calcuta,bengali
Date: 1962 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Calcutta, India Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s South Asia archive requests needing river labor, crowded boat life, or Calcutta waterfront activity as documentary insert material.
Period detail: The frames show hand labor, small boats, white sun hats, and crowded river transport consistent with the 1962 Calcutta home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance across the water, preserving an unstaged visitor perspective on men working and passengers moving through a busy vessel.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include shirtless men cutting wood, a larger passenger boat, smaller boats alongside, water, railings, hats, goods, and deep shadow from the filming position.
Film character: The 8mm image has strong contrast, soft focus, color shift, visible grain, and slight handheld framing that give the clip clear home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, cutaway, or transition for river work, travel memory, urban labor, or mid-century India sequences.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for manual waterfront labor and crowded river transport without identifying specific individuals, companies, or a named vessel.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness and context review may be needed separately from copyright or stock-footage licensing checks.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1962 Calcutta 8mm home movie, India river labor, crowded boat, men cutting wood, or vintage waterfront transport footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby frames from the same reel, then other 1962 Calcutta material, then broader India river travel or manual labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1962 Calcutta footage, men in white hats appear to cut or handle wood on a boat viewed through dark foreground framing. — Men work with timber on a boat, partly obscured by shadow.

Men on a river boat in Calcutta appear to handle or cut a long wooden piece while a larger vessel sits nearby. — Workers handle wood on the upper portion of a crowded river scene.

A crowded boat in 1962 Calcutta shows passengers under the deck while a smaller boat sits beside the hull. — Passengers and smaller craft crowd the river vessel below the work area.

The Calcutta river scene shows a larger passenger vessel with people aboard and a smaller boat alongside in bright sun. — A smaller boat moves beside a crowded passenger vessel on the river.

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